SALT LAKE CITY, April 14 (UPI) -- A man with a long history of hiding out in girls' school locker rooms has been charged with a felony for the first time under a new Utah law, officials say.
Brian Richard Lee, 47, has a record of five convictions, police say. Greg Whinham, the police chief in Roy, told The Salt Lake Tribune he has known of him since 1992.
"Every time he does it, he goes into a school, into where female students are going to come across him doing some pretty significant sexual things," Whinham said.
His most recent arrest came after a track coach at Sand Ridge Junior High saw him in the locker room there, police said. The coach said Lee allegedly had taken off his clothes and was touching himself sexually, the newspaper reported.
Lee faces a charge of third-degree lewdness, Weber County District Attorney Dee Smith said. The charge is the result of a 2009 law creating the crime of felony lewdness.
That means a conviction could mean significantly more prison time and registration as a sex offender once he is released.
